Re: online backup software vendor

[Caleb Tennis <caleb.tennis () gmail com>]

Absolutely it can be hosted locally, we run the server software in our data center and our customers are clients who 
connect to it for backup.  In fact, the server software is free to download and install.

Code42, the makers, also run their own "hosted" version, which you may be seeing.  Make sure you're looking at 
Crashplan PRO, and not just Crashplan.

We considered Vembu early on as well, but opted for Crashplan instead.  It works quite well - the main downside against 
some of the others is it doesn't support application level backup - it's purely filesystem based.  Thus, you can't do 
things like backup individual Exchange accounts or SQL databases, which some people want.

On Jan 5, 2011, at 7:20 AM, Randy Carpenter wrote:

> The original poster is looking for software that can be hosted locally, which Crashplan is not as far as I can tell. 
> I am also looking for something that can be hosted locally. The only one we have been able to find is Vembu 
> StoreGrid. Our experience with Vembu has ranged from abysmal to horrific. I would highly recommend *not* looking at 
> them.
>
> I had not heard of the Commvault solution. We'll have to look into that.
>
> I also be grateful for any other options that people are using.
>
> thanks,
> -Randy
>
> --
> | Randy Carpenter
> | Vice President, IT Services
> | Red Hat Certified Engineer
> | First Network Group, Inc.
> | (419)739-9240, x1
> ----
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > I highly recommend looking at Crashplan Pro. We use it for some of our
> > customers and it works great, and the pricing is very reasonable.
> >
> > On Jan 4, 2011, at 9:02 PM, Richard Zheng wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > We are looking at providing backup services for our customers. It
> > > should
> > > have software running on our servers with SAN attached to it and
> > > client
> > > software running on windows or mac. Anyone knows some good vendors?
> > >
> > > Thanks!
> > > Richard